Thousands to March in Paris Against Rising Islamophobia, Backed by Left-Wing Groups

Among the associations supporting this march, we can mention the Collective against Islamophobia in France (CCIF), the Adama Committee, the New Anti-Capitalist Party (NPA), the L.E.S. Muslim Platform, the National Union of Students of France (UNEF), and the Libertarian Communist Union (UCL), reports Saphir news.

According to the organizers of this demonstration, it is above all a question of "uniting and giving ourselves the means to fight" Islamophobia which "is a reality in France". It is no longer "a debate of ideas or a critique of religions but a form of explicit racism that targets people because of their faith," they observe.

In short, this demonstration intends to say, "stop the racist speeches that are pouring out on our screens day after day, in general indifference and the complicit silence of the state institutions responsible for fighting racism".

It is also a question of saying no "to the discriminations that target women wearing the veil" and "to the violence and attacks against Muslim women and men, who are gradually dehumanized and stigmatized, making them potential terrorists or enemies of the interior".

This demonstration has received the support of the French left. In a column published in the daily Libération, several elected officials and political leaders deplored the situation prevailing in France.

According to them, it is a country where, "for years, the dignity of Muslim women and men has been thrown to the dogs, designated to the vindictiveness of the most racist groups who now occupy the French political and media space, without the gravity of the situation being taken into account".

This is a column signed by several elected officials and left-wing political leaders, including the leader of the Insoumis, Jean-Luc Mélenchon, and his entire parliamentary group, Benoît Hamon, founder of the Génération.s Movement, the EELV senator from Paris, Esther Benbassa, and Philippe Martinez, Secretary General of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT).